Well, if you want the story...
We seeded 6th at FLR, and had made our picklist to pick for best autonomous scoring, so as to compliment our balancing. Long story short, the second seed snapped up our first pick, and we modified our picklist to be one centered around triple balancing. To that regard, we picked exclusively wide robots with good bridge manipulators and high traction. Scoring was a second priority, though we did manage to rack up a few points in autonomous. Our final (and best alliance we have ever picked) was us (
639),
3003, and
843.
Here's a video of it
In the first quarterfinal match, we were the one and only triple at Fingerlakes. We scored a few points in auton, and went straight for the bridge. We got the balance quite easilly, in fact, but our partner 3003 got their bumper caught on the edge of the field. The drivers saw it, and performed a precision maneuver to get off; some of the best driving I've seen all year.
There's another angle of it. With this balance, we were able to upset the 3rd alliance and advance to the semis.
However, the next match, we weren't working for whatever reason. It is still unknown what happened. In the semis, we were working, but one of our partners wasn't. If you've got a dead robot, it pretty much precludes any sort of triple balance, so we ended up losing those two matches. Very good playing by the 340+3015 alliance, though. They would have been much closer if our alliance had been at full operating capacity.
We'll be at DC next week, and are quite excited to possibly pull off a few more triples. One last notable thing about our triples is the fact that we directed both of our alliance partners to drive against us, and let us push them. Our treads are sticky enough that we have the necessary traction to push them up while they drive against us, and it negates the effect of the robots sliding around the bridge.